Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935152AbXEVVxd (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 17:53:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758537AbXEVVxY (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 17:53:24 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:40340 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758557AbXEVVxX (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 17:53:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 14:52:45 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: section mismatches Message-Id: <20070522145245.727813f3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1963 Lines: 24 So I bravely did an i386 allmodconfig build on the current -mm lineup: WARNING: vmlinux(.text+0xc010116f): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:start_kernel (between 'is386' and 'check_x87') WARNING: vmlinux(.text+0xc02f7af7): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'rest_init' and 'alloc_node_mem_map') WARNING: vmlinux(.text+0xc02fe08d): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'iret_exc' and '_etext') WARNING: vmlinux(.text+0xc02fe099): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'iret_exc' and '_etext') WARNING: vmlinux(.text+0xc02fe0a5): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'iret_exc' and '_etext') WARNING: vmlinux(.text+0xc02fe0b1): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'iret_exc' and '_etext') WARNING: vmlinux(.text+0xc02f7b83): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__alloc_bootmem_node (between 'alloc_node_mem_map' and 'zone_wait_table_init') WARNING: vmlinux(.text+0xc02f7c53): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__alloc_bootmem_node (between 'zone_wait_table_init' and 'schedule') WARNING: vmlinux(.text+0xc021dcc8): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__alloc_bootmem (between 'vgacon_startup' and 'vgacon_scrolldelta') WARNING: vmlinux(.text+0xc02fe738): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'iret_exc' and '_etext') WARNING: vmlinux(.text+0xc02fe884): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'iret_exc' and '_etext') WARNING: vmlinux(.data+0xc0439099): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:xen_start_kernel (between 'startup_xen' and 'boot_gdt_descr') Could the people who write these bugs, please, like, fix them? It's not trivial noise. These things lead to kernel crashes. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/